Evaluation Projects

Here you will find updates from everyone on their evaluation projects. Be sure to check them out and be ready to discuss at our next monthly check-in.

Rachele (updated 04.02.18)

Program: Underwater Robotics

Questions:

1. How does participation improve students' communication skills as demonstrated between team members, students, and instructors in both written and verbal forms?
   1. Indicator: (verbal) student questions....[define communication skills]
   2. Indicator: (written) journal entries.... [define communication skills]
2. In what ways do participants demonstrate increased engineering skills?
   1. Indicator: vocabulary, use of appropriate tool terminology in journals (accuracy, specificity, frequency)
   2. Indicator: engineering task, completion of robotic device
   3. Indicator: student confidence, comfort completing task... (asking instructors questions).. through observations of participants

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Nola (updated 03.27.18)

Program: Student and Teacher Grant Program

Questions:

1. What value does the grant program have for recipients in terms of knowledge, interest, skills and social behavior?
   1. Indicator: Grant recipients report enhanced student knowledge beyond that attained in classroom post experience
   2. Indicator: Grant recipients report students demonstrate new skills post experience
   3. Indicator: Grant recipients report students have increased interest in subjects related to their experience
   4. Indicator: Grant recipients report students demonstrate new social behaviors post experience

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1. How does the off-campus experience enhance student knowledge beyond what was studied in the classroom?
2. What new skills did students learn in this experience and how have students demonstrated those skills since participating in this experience?
3. How does the level of interest in this subject change for this student or the group as a whole?
4. If this experience involved developing new social behaviors, how do students demonstrate those skills after the experience ?

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Nicole (updated 04.10.18)

Program: Olympic Coast MATE ROV competition

Questions:

1. To what extent does the coordination and the host organization's preparation for the ROV competition influence the satisfaction (and future engagement?) of the participants?
2. What is needed for effective coordination of the ROV competition for continued team participation?

Use: completed site plan for facilitation of event (product of the evaluation)

1. Indicator: rating of accessibility of event information
2. Indicator: student awareness/comfort of mission prior to the event (student interview during engineering discussion)
3. Indicator:

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Dean (updated....

Program:

Questions:

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Leslie (updated....

Program: Non-Profit Capacity Building Conference

Questions:

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Jennifer (updated 04.04.18)

Program: Nature Bridge environmental science programs

Questions:

1. To what extent do students in our programs understand how scientific investigations answer a specific question?
   1. Indicator: Students correctly identify IV and DV?
   2. Indicator: Number of experimental revisions students make in their design? (NGSS....)
2. To what extent are students in our programs able to construct plausible explanations based on the data available to them?
   1. Indicator: (Claims, evidence, reasoning?)

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